 Custom Search Guy recommends: A free desktop tool that monitors, or restarts, your VMware virtual machines. Download your free VM Console Guy’s Ezine 138 – Tips for Network UtilitiesThe purpose of this week’s ezine is to give you tips for networking programs. Most of the utilities are free, or shareware. Network MagicThis utility provides detailed help for getting systems to talk with one another on a home network. The idea of Network Magic to help XP or Vista computer talk to routers, digital cameras printers and other hardware. Network Magic reduces frustration and saves time by simplifying and automating set up, management, and repair of home and small office networks. Update: One reader kindly wrote in saying Network Magic was not that helpful on his Vista machine – eventually he had to remove it. Please write-in if you have any experiences good or bad with this or indeed, any other of my recommendations Visit Network Magic NetlimiterNetLimiter is a useful tool for measuring internet traffic. If you have a network connected to the internet you can use NetLimiter to set limits for download or upload transfer. Even if you have no need to limit, the real-time traffic measurements may be of interest. There are three versions, Free, Lite and Pro. Check out Netlimiter Network NotepadOne of Paul DeBrino’s favourites. Network Notepad is a freeware program for creating interactive network diagrams. You can select network objects from the supplied library and drag them into the diagram. If you wish you can export the diagram as a bitmap file. This is a tricky product to define, but a fun product to use. I say again this is a freeware product so why not give it a trial and see if it helps with your network diagrams and configuration. TestNetwork Notepad Guy Recommends: Tools4ever’s UMRA |
